The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported that two children were killed and two soldiers were injured during a gun battle with terrorists in South Waziristan’s Zinghara area on Thursday. The military also reported that they killed eight terrorists during the operation. Pakistan has been facing a wave of terror attacks across its rural and urban areas, with security forces, law enforcement personnel, and civilians being targeted by terrorists. To combat this threat, Pakistan’s civil and military leadership has resolved to take down the terrorists by conducting intelligence-based operations (IBO) to clear areas infiltrated by militants. Just one day before this incident, security forces killed a terrorist commander involved in an attack on a census team in the Gara Guldad area of Dera Ismail Khan’s Tehsil Kulachi. Furthermore, terrorists had opened fire on a police party employed on census security duty in Tank’s Raghzai area, resulting in the martyrdom of one policeman named Constable Dil Jaan. In addition, the Ministry of Defence rejected the Election Commission of Pakistan’s request to provide security during the elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to the “situation in the country,” with the ministry noting that the security of the borders and the country was the army’s “first priority.”